I'm guessing it might not be common for other people, but at this point we've lost so many things to electrical storms I'm not willing to take any chances. Every single time I hear thunder, all computers get shutdown. A friend tells me yesterday I'm exaggerating, but.... am I?
It might be more connected to the fact that the home that we own is not a new construction. So maybe there grounding work was not done up to code, but even then, this is not the first place that I've lived in where I've lost a piece of electronic gear to an electrical storm.
So far in about three years of living here, we've lost:
- (2) Power Supplies
- (1) Video Card
- (2) Hard drives
- (1) Router
Logic dictates these can't be total coincidences or anything remotely close to "bad luck" - But, I'm open to some suggestions. Now, before you tell me to check the grounding on the power sockets, and not be so useless. I would like to inform you that I have, and it reads correctly, so I'm not sure exactly what's happening there.
In any case, this is just the time of the year when if I say good by abruptly (in chat of course), people should probably assume a thunder just hit really close to home and I'm racing to save my hard drive from mother nature and nothing else.
I wonder if this is common in florida? Has anyone had a similar experience out there?
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